A lottery ticket vendor covers his three-wheeled vehicle with leaves in the southern beach town of Vung Tau, where the temperature on Thursday morning hovered around 40 degrees Celsius. Photo credit: Zing

A Hong Kong bookseller and British passport holder who disappeared last year said he had not been kidnapped by Chinese authorities, as many suspect, but had sneaked into China illegally and that he would renounce his British citizenship.

Thailand has quarantined 32 people as it seeks to prevent the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) after a second case of the virus was detected on Friday, a health ministry official said on Monday.